Ryska Federationen och det Tyska Riket - är en analogi möjlig?
(2019) FKVA22 20182Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- In this essay two parallel analyses of today’s Russia in relation to the annexation of Crimea and the German Empire from its creation following the Franco-Prussian war until the outbreak of the first world war will be conducted with the purpose to answer the question; if an analogy can be made between these cases. These analyses will be from the theoretical perspective of Neoclassical Realism. Following the individual analyses an analogy between the two cases will be presented, which in turn will bring up the similarities we have found between the cases. At the end we arrive at a conclusion that much of what Russia is doing relating to foreign policy today can be compared to the actions of imperial Germany in the decades building up to the... (More)
- In this essay two parallel analyses of today’s Russia in relation to the annexation of Crimea and the German Empire from its creation following the Franco-Prussian war until the outbreak of the first world war will be conducted with the purpose to answer the question; if an analogy can be made between these cases. These analyses will be from the theoretical perspective of Neoclassical Realism. Following the individual analyses an analogy between the two cases will be presented, which in turn will bring up the similarities we have found between the cases. At the end we arrive at a conclusion that much of what Russia is doing relating to foreign policy today can be compared to the actions of imperial Germany in the decades building up to the first world war. Following this papers findings a discussion will be held if this – from a deterministic standpoint, can be a pointer towards what Russia’s actions will ultimately lead to, with the respect to the changes in global factors such as the creation of the UN and the invention of nuclear weapons which has happened during the hundreds years separating the two cases. (Less)
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- author
- Ponomareva, Nastja LU and Treutiger, Arvid LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- FKVA22 20182
- year
- 2019
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- Tyskland, Ryssland, Putin, Bismarck, Wilhelm 2, Neoklassisk Realism, Analogi
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8966447
- date added to LUP
- 2019-02-22 15:51:18
- date last changed
- 2019-02-22 15:51:18
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